The House hasn’t been in session in more than a month, an unprecedented and controversial decision by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to shutter all legislative business amid the standoff.

The second-longest government shutdown in history continues with another Sente vote today, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, on a GOP-backed bill called the Shutdown Fairness Act that would pay federal workers...

Essential government services that protect human life or property such as the military, air travel and law enforcement continue to work, though they are doing so without pay.

Newsweek takes a look at readers' comments—this week focusing on the president's plan to buy beef from Argentina.

President Donald Trump’s intent to import more beef from Argentina to reduce domestic prices has the American cattle industry, including in Wyoming, uncertain about the future.

“Nebraska’s ranchers cannot afford to have the rug pulled out from under them when they’re just getting ahead or simply breaking even,” Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) said this week on X.

Donald Trump accused Canada of attempting to illegally sway the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming the country “cheated” by misrepresenting Ronald Reagan’s stance on tariffs in a recent ad campaign.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Ontario is making the right decision by ending its tariff ad campaign that led U.S. President Donald Trump to call off all trade talks with Canada.

“The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering hi...

In a post made to X, Rep. Greene, 50, wrote, “I fully trust and support President Trump’s expertise to build a stunning edition to the White House that every administration going forward will enjoy. ...

Of all the failures by Congress this year to fulfil its role under the constitution—to insist upon its authority over spending and tariffs or upon the continued existence of agencies it voted into being—nothing is as dangerous as its reluctance to scrutinise the Trump administration’s killings of people it says are smuggling drugs by sea.

President Trump took questions from reporters at a homeland security roundtable on Thursday, addressing his administration's recent strikes on alleged drug boats in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea...

The U.S. has deployed more than 10,000 troops, multiple Navy ships and F-35 fighters around Venezuela, drawing U.N. condemnation for violating international law.